Deswik.
CAD A powerful design platform with superior
DESIGN & SOLIDS MODELING
Deswik.CAD has been designed by mining professionals for
mining professionals. Effectively a spatial database, Deswik.
CAD combines the visual power of a modern CAD engine
with the efficient data management of a fully featured
database, giving you the ability to display, analyze and
report your data however you need to.
Deliberately designed to provide generic engineering tools
with flexible applications, Deswik.CAD is used and sought
after across all mining sectors; underground and open pit
mines, both coal and metal, throughout the world.
Fully Featured CAD Engine
• ­Modern Graphics engine designed to handle
large mining datasets with excellent graphics
performance.
• Generate, slice and Boolean without errors. Arguably
the best solids and polygon Boolean tools on the
market.
• Support for all standard CAD objects as well as
mining specific objects including:
- Irregular stopes and tunnels
- Drill holes
- Gridded seam and block models.
• ­Superior graphic performance taking advantage
of modern graphics card technologies.
• Generate solids / polygons using a robust
Boolean engine. Where other mining technologies
fail, our solids will be valid.
• Import invalid solids from other mining systems
and repair them automatically.
Integrated Data Management
• Superior attribute and metadata handling,
bringing GIS-style capabilities to 3D mining data.
• Brings advanced spreadsheet style calculations
into the design environment, offering superior
analysis and insights:
- 3D spatial lookup formulae
data handling - the next generation of
planning tools for mining
- Interrogate against solids for volume,
area and intersections.
• Incorporate a broad variety of data sources:
- Global constants and parameter tables
- Curve and value surface interpolation
- Interactive and rules-based filtering from
attribute values.
Comprehensive Mining Design Tools
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• Advanced design and editing tools within a
simple, modern, and intuitive interface.
• Universal applications handle all mining sectors,
open cut or underground, coal or metals.
• Rules-based mine design engine for designs,
allowing for scenario and what-if analysis.
• Generate solids and surfaces using a multitude
of methods:
- Projection – strip or pit (open cut reserving)
- X-Section along polyline (tunnels)
- Manual or batch linking (stopes)
- Tessellation (LIDAR data processing or
DTM creation).
Auditability and Consistency
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• Information manipulation using a powerful formula
builder, instead of scripting.
• Add structure to the planning process using
graphical process maps tied into the entire
Deswik.CAD toolset.
• Wizard and rules-based tools provides data
manipulation transparency.
• ­Customizable process map macro builder:
- Repeatable design and data transformations
- Standardized planning process mapped to
internal processes
- Remove confusion for unfamiliar users.
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 Deswik.CAD A powerful design platform with superior
data handling - the next generation of
DESIGN & SOLIDS MODELING planning tools for mining

Powerful Reporting Survey functionality

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• Rapid, intuitive plotting using the WYSIWYG • Direct Integration with Leica Instruments:
principle. ‚‚ Import jobs directly from DBX job files.
• ­Use custom filters and legend overlays for ‚‚ Upload reference data and survey stations from
superior graphical reporting. stations database.
• ­Flexible data queries generated on demand:
• A multi-user stations database stores all of the survey
- Volumes, areas, attributes and properties
stations set up by the survey team as well as a ledger
- Data histograms.
of the imported jobs
• ­Familiar plotting functionality mirroring most
‚‚ Supports either a standalone stations database
other commercial CAD systems:
file or directly integrates with Deswik.MDM
- Unlimited, independent viewports for
(Mining Data Management) for enterprise sites.
each plot
- Title block text with intelligent attributes • Apply display styles to the imported survey data so

including date and user that the observations appear as polylines, points,

- Spreadsheet-style table editing; with stations or inserts.

tables easily placed into 3D space or on plots. • Ability to load survey stations from the database to the
CAD for plotting or reference.
Inclusive Format • Export set-out and reference information to a variety
­ of formats including; Leica DBX Job files, *.DXF, *.STR
• Based on an XML format, Deswik.CAD easily or user definable format text files.
integrates with most mining and CAD
• Store, edit and label attributes per vertex on polylines.
packages including AutoCAD, Vulcan, Minex,
• Add a laser line offsets table to a plot.
Minescape, Minesight, Surpac, XPAC, etc.
• Flatten a wall outline polyline to a floor centreline
• ­Plugin and scripting interfaces allow for
polyline.
customization and data manipulation.
• ­Integrated scripting development environment
(IDE):
- Plugins can be developed in VB.NET or
C# and easily integrated into the
application
- Powerful object model that allows full
access to all properties and methods
- In-built development environment with
full access to the entire .NET framework.

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